Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The San Diego Police Department gets too little credit for what it has been doing for quite a few years. Our city is famous for its climate and beaches, but we have always enjoyed a low crime rate for a city our size. Last year we ranked 3rd best in violent crime for cities over a half-million in population, and 4th best in property crime. And we do it with fewer cops on the street; 1.59 officers for each 1,000 people as opposed to a national average of 2.3 officers. Not stated in the Union-Tribune article is that San Diego has one of the highest crime solution rates in the nation. Kudos to SDPD.

There many reasons, not all obvious, why this is a nice place to live.

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About Me

I grew up in the Air Force, and served in diesel-electric submarines during the Cold War. I worked in the steel industry until it sort of died in the 80's, then in landscape management until recently, when health issues demanded retirement.

I believe government should intrude in the lives of its citizens to the minumum possible degree, but I also know that it must be big enough to
"get the job done." To me the job of government includes concepts that are usually thought of as liberal such as stringent regulation of necessary monopolies, regulating all business enough to prevent it from becoming predatory, providing necessary
comfort to citizens who are rendered destitute by calamity outside their reasonable control, and protection of our environment and natural resources.